Everywhere you go there is a chance that you have seen an ad advocating the ban of cigarettes and public smoking. For instance, The Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (ANR) is a prime example of an organization promoting the ban of public smoking. The ANR supports the ban of public smoking not only because smoking cigarettes harm the person smoking it, but it also harms the people who breathe in the smoke. On the other hand, the organization, The Smokers Association have a completely different perspective on public smoking. The Smokers Association supports the rights smoker because they have the right to smoke freely wherever they want, whenever they want. If smoking is what the person choose to do then so be it, because that person has control …show more content…
they could do it in their homes and the nonsmoking population would not be susceptible to second hand smoke.
As mentioned previously, the mission to get rid of smoking has been around for ages. In fact, the mission to ban public smoking began in the early 1990s (Clune). This concern of smoking is due to several reasons. One of the main reasons however is the danger of second-hand smoke or passively smoking. The organization, Americans for Nonsmokers Rights (ANR), rose for this reason. In 1976, the ANR was formed because they wanted laws to be enacted to protect nonsmokers while in the workplace as well in the public (Americans for Nonsmokers Rights). The reason for this is because not only is the user posing a threat to their health, but they are also putting others around them in danger of second hand smoke. For instance, in the United States alone about 53,000 annual deaths are attributed to passively smoking (Rivero, Persson and Romine). Even on the cigarette packages there is a surgeon general warning that cautions the user that the substance they are about to use pose as a hazard to their health. But of course the user disregards this fact. It is also important to note that even though society recognizes that the dangers that tobacco poses on people’s health, especially with all the statistics and laws implemented to …show more content…
In another article posted by the ANR titles, The Effect of Smokefree Air Ordinances on Smoking Prevalence and Cessation, talks about the benefits of these ordinances placed. For instance, it was found that with the increase of prohibiting smoking, smokers who face these restrictions consume 11-15% less than average and the quitting rate is 84% higher than average. What was significant in this article was the amount of research that was done by different institutions that found with restrictions posed on public smoking, whether it be in hospitals or in the workplace, there was a major decrease in the amount of tobacco consumption (Americans for Nonsmokers